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Effective Group Learning: Strategies for Facilitating Productive Group Work

This training unit explores different aspects of group learning and provides strategies for effectively facilitating group work. Participants will learn how to identify and address the learning needs of groups, understand the stages of group development, and use various approaches to facilitate group dynamics. With a focus on creating a conducive learning environment, this training aims to enhance participants' ability to facilitate productive group work.

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Effective Group Learning: Strategies for Facilitating Productive Group Work

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  1. Training Trainers and EducatorsUnit 5 – Effective Group Work • Aim • Explore different aspects of group learning • Learning outcomes • Consider the learning needs of groups and apply when planning learning activities • Describe the way groups form and develop • Use the approaches introduced to help facilitate groups

  2. Group working: Things to consider • Am I facilitating, chairing or leading? • Does the group have a clear task and outcome? • Are we meeting common vision or meeting individual needs? • Is there a hierarchical, sharing or collaborative approach as to how the group runs? • How structure and managed is the group work? • Is the group working towards solving problems or information sharing

  3. Statutory Continuous Professional Development Specific need • Identifying Learning Needs

  4. The group dynamic triangle Task Process Support

  5. forming • storming • norming • performing • adjourning • Tuckman’s Model of Group Development and Behaviourhttp://www.businessballs.com/tuckmanformingstormingnormingperforming.htm

  6. Co-ordinator • Resource investigator • Team worker • Shaper • Company worker/ implementer • Completer/ finisher • Plant • Monitor/ evaluator • Specialist • Belbin’s Team Role Theory

  7. To support the group achieve the outcome of their learning needs • Encourage divergent thinking skills • Generate ideas • Allow free flowing open discussion • Seeking diverse points of view • Suspend judgment • The role of the facilitator

  8. Heron’s framework for facilitation Herons modes of facilitation Herons dimensions of facilitation • Planning • Structuring • Meaning • Confronting • Feeling • Valuing • Hierarchical • Co-operative • Autonomous

  9. Planning • goals, aims, content, alignment, assessment and evaluation Structuring • learning experiences, the environment, design of delivery, organisation Meaning • Understanding and making sense of what is going on in the group around task, process and support Confronting • Raising awareness about blocks to learning in the group e.g. uncertainty, unclear aims and objectives, lack of knowledge ,attitude, poor communication Feeling • managing the feelings and emotional life of the group Valuing • integrity, mutual respect, self worth • Heron’s 6 Dimensions of Facilitation

  10. Group Activity

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